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We don't need "industry sources" to tell us Intel and Microsoft are actively encouraging computer makers to offer Windows 8 tablets - or that there will be a host of these machines announced before the year is up.

Intel, in particular, needs to promote its chippery, especially now that rival processor platform, ARM, owns almost all of the tablet CPU market at the moment, and that Microsoft, acknowledging this, is releasing a version of Windows 8 for ARM chips.

And it'll lose out to Android far more than any other platform. Indeed, Gartner last week forecast that Microsoft's OS will lie well behind both Android and iOS come 2016, shipping just over 4m units, compared to almost 130m Android tabs and 170m Apple devices that will ship in the same timeframe.